In Atlanta’s distant suburbs, voters across the political spectrum report that local life is good in 2022 — but the direction of the country is not. That’s one of three major insights we gained while interviewing voters in a key state. We visited two metro Atlanta counties — one blue […] Read more »
More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak
With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties’ own voters, aren’t terribly happy with the parties or what they’re talking about. Given that Sunday’s CBS News poll finds most aren’t happy with the direction of the country either, […] Read more »
Republicans are gaining with female voters, as gender gap shrinks
The polling ahead of the 2022 midterms has been marked by a shrinking of electoral divisions. Young and older voters are now more likely to agree on their views of President Joe Biden. The Democratic advantage among Black and Hispanic voters, while still clear, is smaller. Perhaps more surprisingly as […] Read more »
How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generation
… Gen Xers, which can be roughly defined as those born between 1965 and 1980, came of age under President Ronald Reagan amid the end of the Cold War. The popular image of Generation X has never quite fit in within any easy political framing. It’s the generation that produced […] Read more »
Trump’s MAGA is marching down a trail blazed by the Tea Party
A little more than a dozen years ago, a new movement erupted in American politics calling itself “the Tea Party.” In the midterm elections of 2010, that movement remade Congress and helped the Republican Party to a decade of dominance in electing the legislatures of roughly 30 states. The phrase […] Read more »
Nativist nation
This week saw some political wins (and some losses) for a political worldview promoted by former President Trump and now being promulgated by the candidates he has endorsed in the primaries. Jarringly, these political wins come on the back of the Buffalo massacre that marked one of the most violent […] Read more »